Published Research

The 17th Annual Law Department Operations Survey Report highlights key findings, data, and analysis from the survey, including: legal ops views on GenAI; law firm rates and rate expectations; changing legal service delivery models; and metrics, reporting, and collaboration. The 36-page report also includes more than 100 data points on the current and future state of legal operations. The yearly survey is created and published by Blickstein Group with the advisory board of LDOs from Fortune 300 companies, who consult on the survey.

Produced by NetDocuments and Blickstein Group, this industry report explores how document management systems help law departments reduce costs, gain efficiency, and improve consistency. With growing demands and data, legal departments face rising risks and missed opportunities, highlighting the importance of effective document management. The report analyzes why corporate legal teams might manage documents in fragmented ways, the solutions they seek, strategies for corporate/IT buy-in, and the benefits and future of document management systems.

Produced by the Legal Value Network and Blickstein Group, the 4th Annual Legal Pricing and Project Management Survey, created in collaboration with Litera, delivers the most in-depth data set ever for legal pricing and project management professionals. That by itself would make it valuable.

The Practice Modernization Field Study covers the modernization of legal practice in major firms. It queries different groups within law firms that share some common (and some competing) interests. Each group is deeply affected by the decisions and actions of the others and they all face barriers to giving and receiving clear signals on what they need to play their parts. This work is designed to help them hear and understand each other.

A look at the use of outside data sources by law firm CMOs to identify new opportunities and win business from existing and prospective clients.

A comprehensive report that examines the extent to which organizations are recognizing the high stakes of data and effectively managing digital risk.

This report explores and highlights how corporate legal teams surveyed are approaching their own unique journey of modernizing the legal department, with the hope it offers guideposts for others.

The industry’s first and only independent, comprehensive investigation of specific problems AI-powered legal tools claim to solve and how effective they are in actually solving them.